Adjudicate Quotes

#1. How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#2. The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely and thorough manner.

Joe Baca

#3. Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#4. It is idle to adjudicate upon the right and wrong of incidents that have already happened. It is useful to understand them and, if possible, to learn a lesson from them for the future. It

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.

William H. Whyte

#6. Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.

Stephen Jay Gould

#7. In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.

Pierre Omidyar

#8. On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms.

David Papineau

#9. He argues that science cannot provide the means by which to judge whether its technological inventions are good or bad for human beings. To do that, we must know what a good human person is, and science cannot adjudicate morality or define such a thing.

Timothy J. Keller

#10. Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.

Jasper Fforde

#11. If you just had an inspiration at night or with a girl or whatever and you want to talk about it, you don't necessarily want to share it with everybody ... That's the first thing that made me want to go solo; I wanted to talk about my own things, I wanted to try to be creative [in] my own way.

K-Maro

#12. What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead lawyer in the road? There are skid marks in front of the dog.

Barbara Delinsky

#13. If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

Tom Wilson

#14. I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

Belva Lockwood

#15. The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.

Willem De Kooning

#16. When you think of the limitation in your life, you may be tempted to conclude, "God could never use me." But God is never limited by our limitations.

Rick Warren

#17. The Women of Our World are like Mother Earth. They don't just give life to the next generation but also to Hope. The Women of Our World are to be loved, respected and protected.

Avijeet Das

#18. I don't think that it would make the slightest difference to life and to the aspects of life that interest me if we could go to the moon tomorrow, because I think what really makes life interesting is the big question "Why?"

Malcolm Muggeridge

#19. Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

Larry Wall

#20. What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

Richard Armitage

#21. Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.

Susan Sontag